During the last week of October, me and my group members took to the streets of Camden Town to begin filming for our performance based shots in Camden Town. We started by the lock as this is busiest at midday, and thought that the actual Camden Lock could represent our main video girl moving onto better things. We mainly focused on the surroundings of Camden and the people and its inhabitants as our audience will be familiar with the location, and we wanted aspects of the video to look like Amy Winehouse's video - Tears Dry On Their Own.
During filming, we split the role of the director and took it in turns to film the main actress as we wanted to capture a variety of shots in different styles. The part i played was filming the actress when we were on the train towards Camden, in which i was able to get some interesting close up and mid shots of the actress miming along to the song. I wanted the actress to engage with the role properly and to reflect the mixture of feelings that were meant to be shown. I was able to capture some good footage in which the actress is sitting on the train, looking lonely and depressed. The lighting in the background was perfect as it was filmed in the early afternoon, and wasn't too over powering and looked natural and soft, so you could still see the actress' face and capture her emotion. Thinking logically, i filmed in one of the emptiest carriages so that there would be no disruption from the public thinking they would be filmed, or someone accidentally being in the video so that when it came to editing it wouldn't be as challenging or ruin any of the lovely shots captured.
During filming, we split the role of the director and took it in turns to film the main actress as we wanted to capture a variety of shots in different styles. The part i played was filming the actress when we were on the train towards Camden, in which i was able to get some interesting close up and mid shots of the actress miming along to the song. I wanted the actress to engage with the role properly and to reflect the mixture of feelings that were meant to be shown. I was able to capture some good footage in which the actress is sitting on the train, looking lonely and depressed. The lighting in the background was perfect as it was filmed in the early afternoon, and wasn't too over powering and looked natural and soft, so you could still see the actress' face and capture her emotion. Thinking logically, i filmed in one of the emptiest carriages so that there would be no disruption from the public thinking they would be filmed, or someone accidentally being in the video so that when it came to editing it wouldn't be as challenging or ruin any of the lovely shots captured.
There are also going to be cuts to the narrative aspect of the video, which will show the couple fighting and the wife leaving with the child and then cuts of visual metaphors such as the smashing glass and the baby items. We were thinking of filming this in one of our dining rooms to make it more realistic, whilst having cuts to the husband cheating in a bar to create a better impact.
This was just the beginning of our filming though as we still had to film the scenes of the husband cheating, aswell as capturing the fight scenes and filming the visual metaphors, as
the video will use three concepts of music videos, visual metaphors, performance and narrative.
Camden Lock
Originally, we asked our friend to be the main actress in this video as she's been in music videos on television before therefore would find it easy to relate to the role without holding herself back.Unfortunately hours before we were due to film, she cancelled on us due to her going on an unexpected holiday which was quite demotivating. Luckily, another friend of ours stepped in to say she was available to film that day.
The next main actress in the video is a good friend of mine - Zainab Ruby Jaye.
We thought it would be appropriate to use her for our music video as she does drama a-level so can engage within the role properly and can adapt herself to fit with what we needed her to do.
Our actress had low self esteem when doing filming in busy public places such as on the train, and near Camden lock, compared with if we had the original actress we were meant to use as she has previous experience of working within the music video industry would have helped. We also had to teach her the lyrics of the song briefly enough for her to be able to lip sync along whilst on the train to Camden as we didn't have time to give her enough notice for her to thoroughly learn the song.
Our actress had low self esteem when doing filming in busy public places such as on the train, and near Camden lock, compared with if we had the original actress we were meant to use as she has previous experience of working within the music video industry would have helped. We also had to teach her the lyrics of the song briefly enough for her to be able to lip sync along whilst on the train to Camden as we didn't have time to give her enough notice for her to thoroughly learn the song.
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